222 Gallery

No current exhibition.
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2424 Studios

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Area 919

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Abby Schmidt: WAXED
June 11 – July 18
WAXED will present Abby Schmidt works in two mediums: melted wax light boxes and painted plastic toys on plywood.
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Art Star Gallery

Draw 4: Group Exhibition
June 13 – July 26
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 5-9pm.
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AxD Gallery

Outgrowths: Carey Netherton
Opens with reception Friday, June 5th, 5 to 8pm.
June 5 – July 18.

Is there such a thing as a “useless object”?

In hosting its first ever solo sculptural exhibition, AxD Gallery raises this and other questions concerning value and meaning. Opening June 5th, Outgrowths is a showcase of the varied artistic disciplines of artist Carey Netherton. With a MFA in Sculpture from the University of Southern Illinois, Carey has an expert command in woodworking, welding, and all forms of casting and art foundry methods. The work in Outgrowths explores how new life can be bestowed on an object when coupled with another. These hybrids appear at once whimsical and foreboding; as if they were created with an effortless stream-of-conscious construction. Netherton’s process of manipulation and juxtaposition of natural and industrial materials create simultaneous connections and contradictions. As these device-like contraptions defy functionality they serve to question the true function of any object.

Velocity: Works on Paper by Peter G.-Ray
June 5 – July 18.
Concurrent with the Outgrowths: Carey Netherton exhibition, virtuoso painter Peter G.-Ray returns for his second engagement at AxD. In contrast to his prior show of large canvases, Velocity features his latest paintings — intimately scaled works on paper. As always, his work defies static, definitive labels. His latest explorations in working with metallic surfaces and epoxy resin has lead Peter to create his most energized work to date. Despite working in an essentially monochromatic palette, the reflective paper support takes Peter’s techniques into an even more otherworldly dimension, playing with distortion and reflections, different at every new angle.
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Bambi Gallery

Unbalanced Forces
First Friday – June 5
6:00 – 10:00pm
A collaboration of 9 jewelry makers who have created extraordinary pieces of objets d’art.
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Blink Art Gallery

No current exhibition.
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Bridgette Mayer Gallery

Benefit Exhibition Supporting Back On My Feet

BENEFIT: JUNE 5, 2009 6:00 – 8:30PM
Exhibition will run through July, 2009

In celebration of eight years in Philadelphia, the Bridgette Mayer Gallery is holding a Benefit Exhibition to honor the non-profit group Back on My Feet. Back on My Feet promotes the self-sufficiency of Philadelphia’s homeless population by engaging them in running as a means to build confidence, strength and self-esteem. The benefit will feature 100 10″ x 10″ panels by gallery artists, Philadelphia artists and Back on My Feet artists, ranging in price from $500-$1,000. Proceeds from the event will go directly to the non-profit.
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B Square Gallery

No current exhibition.
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Cerulean Arts

Yasuji Paul Hamanaka: Look Closer – Set Me Free
May 22 – June 26
Meet the Artist: Sunday, June 14, 1-4pm; Gallery Talk at 2pm
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Clay Studio

Melissa Mytty: Pickles and Pop
Harrison Gallery
June 5 – June 28, 2009
Opening Reception: First Friday, June 5, 5-9pm

Associate Artist Group Exhibition
Reed Smith Gallery
June 5 – June 28, 2009
Opening Reception, First Friday, June 5, 5-9pm

Rebecca Chappell: New Work
Bonovitz Space
June 5 – June 28, 2009
Opening Reception, First Friday, June 5, 5-9pm
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Copy Gallery

Scenariette
June 5 – 29
Opening Reception: June 5, 6-9 pm

Possible Projects announces Scenariette, an all video show featuring the work of Rob Carter, David Dunn, Jean Alexander Frater and Letha Wilson. Projected sequentially on a single wall the videos are individually privileged the full attention of the space.

While repeating and varying seemingly simple actions, each artist creates small cycles within each video that hold our attention (Carter’s cutting and folding paper, Dunn’s hand unrelentingly opening doors, Frater’s potentially endlessly-balanced paper, and Wilson’s arrangement on a walk in the woods) in the form of meditative gestures; some reach conclusions while others remain forever unresolved. The four works, though different, display similar themes. Ideas of control vs. free will, games vs. labor, and anticipations vs. expectations are formed through each small scenario.
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Crane Arts Building

NEXUSselects 2009
June 11 – July 3
Reception: Thursday June 11, 6 – 9pm
Location: Nexus
Hours: Wed – Sun 12-6pm
NEXUSselects is our annual juried exhibition of graduating art school seniors from the many art schools and programs in the greater Philadelphia region. Every year we are amazed at the sheer quality and talent of art students that apply for this exhibiton, making the task of whittling down our selection of 7 – 9 artists extremely challenging. The 8 artists selected this year represent a tremendous cross section of mediums and practices and further emphasizes the dedication, hard work and leadership of their educators.
June 11 – July 3, 2009 Opening Thursday June 11, 6 to 9pm

InLiquid Presents: Houston and Bowery, an installation by Summer Yates
May 13 – June 28
Reception: Thursday, May 14, 6-9pm
Location: The Hall
Hours: Wed – Sun 12-6pm
Summer Yates’ Houston and Bowery is inspired by the artist’s experiences living, studying, and working in a post-industrial American city. With a title referencing the streets of Manhattan’s East Village, Yates’ installation utilizes materials such as scraps found on construction sites and broken, neglected items left out for trash. She views herself as “a transformer—turning [scraps and trash] into something new; paying homage to our cyclic existence and celebrating an awareness of our transformative abilities.” Yates explains further:
“My sculptures are made from things I found in the street. My creations refer to the body, to nature, and the places that house them. The impermanence of my creations is a reflection of the impermanence of all things. I use my work to illustrate the perpetual state of flux in which we exist; constantly changing, revealing that dangerous things can be beautiful and beautiful things can be frightening.”
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Da Vinci Art Alliance

Envisioning Romeo and Juliet
An awards exhibition by members of Da Vinci Art Alliance, in collaboration with International Opera Theater, of art inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy and IOT’s interpretation
June 6 – 28
Opening Awards Reception: June 6, 6-9pm

Featuring arias by IOT from its new Italian Romeo e Giulietta, directed by Karen Saillant, with music by Emily Wong, libretto by Tommaso Sabbatini, costumes/sets by Mi-Kyoung Lee, world premiered in Teatro degli Avvaloranti, Citta’ della Pieve, Italy, in August 2008
Awards Judges: Karen Saillant and Mi-Kyoung Lee, International Opera Theater
Panel Discussion and Closing Reception: June 28, 1-4 pm
Panelists: Karen Saillant (Director); Emily Wong (Composer); and Rachel Citrino (Artist)
Moderator: Dr. Debra Miller (Art Historian)
Respondent: Charles McMahon (Artistic Director, Lantern Theater Company)
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Esther M Klein Gallery

The FAB Show
May 15-July 3
Opening Reception
May 15, 5pm to 8pm

Imagine being able to manufacture (almost) anything from your home – or at your office; from ceramic pottery to a custom iPod case. An upcoming show at the Klein Gallery at the Science Center will feature three dimensional works of art and design created from digital data.
The FAB Show will feature several digital fabricators or ‘Fabbers’ – small, self-contained factories that can make almost anything, right on your desktop. Fabbers use 3-D printing technology to create solid objects from digital data. The FAB Show will feature two open-source Fabber projects, Fab@Home and MakerBot, along with artists, designers and researchers who are currently using this technology including Sabin+Jones LabStudio, Mark Ganter and Bathsheba Grossman. Throughout the run of this exhibition there will be live demonstrations and scheduled workshops for community members to interact with this emerging technology.
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Fleisher Ollman Gallery

Tristin Lowe & Paul Swenbeck: Mocha Dick in the Invisible World
May 14 – June 13
Tristin Lowe and Paul Swenbeck share a common vantage point inspired by Yankee ingenuity and a love of the disappearing natural world. Lowe continues his work in felt, making the mundane detrius of casual consumption into a ghost shadow of inscrutable beauty. For his part, Swenbeck creates ceramics and metallic alien plant forms that grow into the unused corners of the gallery. This show presents a phantasmagora of ideas-from ghost nets filled with the flotsam and jetsam of extinct specis, to magic circle still-life, to science fiction birth allegories-taking the two artists and viewers across boundaries of hope and believability.
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The Fuel Collection

Utley’s All-Star Animals
May 28 – June 26
Artists include Jay McClellan and Noelle Nardone
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Gallery 339

No current exhibition.
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Germ Books

THE QUICKSAND FONTANELLE
Thomas Nöla & his New England Lapins
June 5 – July 26

The haunted Kinderwelt of Thomas Nöla and his associates visit GERM for a two month exhibition. Known for his musical recordings (Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre and Les Paradisiers) and psychedelic B-movies (”The Doctor”, “To The Wolves…”, and “Jack”), Thomas Nöla makes his first attempt at a gallery installation with help from Boston collaborators Jim Ether, Melissey Castevet and Geb Powers. Paintings, prints, puppets & video loops drag you down into an erratic, infantile wasteland. “The Quicksand Fontanelle” obsesses over a child’s nightmare, the animal kingdom, genitalia…and more?
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Gold Fish Gallery

Group show
Jam packed with artists this month, excuse the brevity in description for each of these great creators! On the wall, Adam Holden Rosenberg’s paintings of body parts and Melanie Pulley paintings from her “Fabric Entities” series. On the floor is a veritable fashion show with clothing designs by Lesley Haas, Kathy Pulver, Emily Burch and Rebecca Pulver. To top it all off, there will be a display of fine jewelry, created by Kathe Scullion.
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Highwire Gallery

Northwest Artists Collective: Gone Fishin’
June 5-28
Opening Reception: June 5, 2009 5 – 9pm
The Northwest Artists’ Collective (NAC) is group of over twenty painters, sculptors, print makers, photographers and fiber artists in Philadelphia’s Northwest corridor of Germantown, Mt. Airy, and Chestnut Hill. The Collective members are professional artists who meet on a monthly basis to discus local arts and projects to further their reach into the community through the arts. The members are professional artists who show independently and as a group throughout the region. Galleries in the greater Philadelphia area and beyond represent many of the members. The Collective is active in the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) as well as other community-based organizations.
This is the first group show for NAC at the Highwire Gallery. The members showing are: Eleanor Day, Elaine Bass, John Hollis, Gail Kotel, Judy Levy, Ellie Seif, Martha Knox, Suzanne Moller, Solomon Levy, Elena Aldrette, Debs Bleicher, Deborah Curtiss, Melissa Maddonni Haims, Jennifer Monahan, Michael Simonian, Don Ricardo Harrison Jr. and Dr. Valarie Ena Swain-Cade McCoullum.
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Institute of Contemporary Art

Odili Donald Odita: Third Space
September 5, 2008 – December 6, 2009
Odili Donald Odita’s large-scale, abstract wall paintings operate at the intersection of Western modernism and African culture. Borrowing strategies of destabilized perception from Op art—a tradition condemned by formalist criticism—and adding narrative and multicultural inflection, Odita both embraces and critiques the modernist tradition. His vast, animated expanses of fractured, rhythmic planes, equally informed by television test band patterns, African textiles, post-colonial discourse, sensory overload, and digital technology, speak to a contemporary experience of dislocation and decenteredness. This is the 16th commission in ICA’s Ramp Project Series.
Third Space, a symphony of irregularly shaped, fractured planes in 115 shades of housepaint, takes full advantage of the Ramp’s soaring, sloping architecture.

Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968
April 24 – August 2
Jazz pioneer, bandleader, mystic, philosopher, and consummate Afro-Futurist, Sun Ra, (born Herman Poole Blount 1914, Birmingham, Alabama, died 1993) and his personal mythology have grown increasingly relevant to a broad range of artists and communities. “Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968″ presents a collection of paintings, drawings, prints, manuscripts, ephemera, and video produced by and about Ra and his associates—much of it previously unseen. This exhibition examines how Ra and his dynamic, continually-evolving ensemble, the Philadelphia-based Arkestra, crafted both their otherworldly image and fiercely independent approach to self-production.
Highlights of the exhibition include original drawings for their 1960’s albums Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow and Other Planes of There, and five newly discovered typed and annotated broadsheets. Until recently, only one such broadsheet was known to exist—the one that Ra gave saxophonist John Coltrane in 1956. The show will also include the unpublished manuscript, The Magic Lie, a book of Ra’s poetry, which has become influential in the nascent Black Islamic movement. In addition to these documents, the film Spaceways, by Edward English, will be on view. The film documents Ra and his Arkestra (a deliberate re-spelling of “orchestra”), in 1968, as they prepare to perform at Carnegie Hall.

Tavares Strachan: Orthostatic Tolerance
April 24 – August 2
The surf surrounding Tavares Strachan’s (b. 1979, Nassau, Bahamas, lives New York) hometown of Nassau, is the site of an experimental rocket launch. Made of glass from island sand, and powered by sugarcane, the rockets mark a primary phase of the artist’s Orthostatic Tolerance project (orthostatic means to stand upright, and tolerance refers to the ability to withstand pressure): to explore the heights of space and the depths of the ocean. Video, drawings, photography, and sculpture document the launch and allow a glimpse into the future. Through the rubric of scientific exploration, he engages both the resources and community of his home country, and investigates environmental, cultural, historical, and postcolonial issues.
The most recent stage of the Orthostatic Tolerance project—launching miniature rockets off the waters near Nassau, Bahamas—will be documented through an installation of drawings, photographs, video, and sculpture (including a compact equipment transport vehicle). Engaging both the resources and community of his home country, the artist investigates environmental, cultural, historical, and postcolonial issues through the rubric of scientific exploration.
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International House

InLiquid.com Video Installation: Ashley John Pigford’s Sound of Sight: Experiments in Audio-Visual Translation. Ashley John Pigford demonstrates his explorations in translating sight and sound. Interested in the creation of new forms of audio-visual compositions based on programmatic and interpretive strategies that transpose banal situations into “synesthetic experiences,” Pigford’s video works are accompanied by printed documentation and diagrams explaining the various experimental processes developed for this installation. May 8 – July 31.
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James Oliver Gallery

Guy Stanley Philoche
Untitled Series
May 8 – June 20
Guy Stanley Philoche’s work has been referred to as a beautiful organization of chaos. He hopes that the viewer brings from these works an understanding of his view of the simplicity of elegance and beauty.
Philoche is a native of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. He immigrated with his family to the United States in 1980. After attending art school in New Haven, Connecticut, he moved to NYC where he currently lives and works.
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Jenny Jaskey Gallery

No current exhibition.
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The Knapp Gallery

Works by Jon Eckel.

April 30 – June 28.
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Locks Gallery

Edna Andrade
Toward Infinity
April 29 – June 13
An exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Edna Andrade, Toward Infinity will be on view April 29th through June 13th, 2009. There will be a reception on Friday, May 1st, from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

Edna Andrade’s work is often remarked upon for the extraordinary precision and clarity of line and color. Throughout the artist’s long career, Andrade continually worked out ideas dealing with line, color, shape and material through studies done in pencil, watercolor and collage. Her process is evident in the finely calibrated geometries of her hard-edged paintings from the early 1970s, through the striped and later color blocked works of the ’80s and ’90s.

Elizabeth Osborne
‘70s Still Life
May 27 – July 3
An exhibition of still life paintings by Elizabeth Osborne, ‘70s Still Life will be on view May 27th through July 3rd, 2009. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, June 5th, from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

On the occasion of Osborne’s retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Locks Gallery brings together paintings and watercolors completed between 1973 and 1978. Still lifes have long been a compelling theme for the artist and have led to innovative compositions and a masterful command of color.
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Mew Gallery

No current exhibition.
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Nexus

Peter Alele & Libbie Soffer. Peter Alele has been interested in images from medical and the uses of the bod/figure as a vehicle for expression. Libbie Soffer constructs her abstract paintings using layers of transparent acrylic veils over collage on canvas. Opening reception May 14, 6-9pm. Continues through June 5.
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Padlock Gallery

CHTHONIC GRAVE
Lance Simmons
Meditations on ancient earth energy concepts in the form of line drawings and prints.

June 6; 8 – midnight
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Pageant: Soloveev

No current exhibition.
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Painted Bride Art Center

No current exhibition.
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The Print Center

Movement I, Movement II and a Sculpture: Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Exhibition Showing May 30-August 1
Thursday, June 25, 7:30pm: Stand-up Comedy Performance by Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Admission: $5
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Projects Gallery

Summer in the City group exhibition
June 5 – August 1.
Artists include Jennifer Baker, Henry Berkowitz, Aubrie Costello, Linda Dubin Garfield, Conor Fields, Ashley Flynn, Adam Lovitz, Daniel Petraitis, Bobby Rosenstock, Martha Savery, Allen Spencer and Deborah Imler, Fay Stanford, Jayne Surrena, Mat Tomezsko, Andrew Wapinski, Tamsen Wojtanowski and others.

Many of the works seem to observe the destructive nature of humanity on their environment with an air of detachment. In some works, a nearly anthropological or documentarian voice is expressed. A sense of urban decay extends from the abstract to the figurative, from literal crumbling buildings and abandoned lots to the reflexive decay of those who inhabit these settings. Many of these works hint at questioning the role of the urbanite in their treatment of their space, their peers and their community. This undercurrent energizes the collective voice of city dwellers, strengthening a conversation beyond the expected summery escapism.

Emerging from their wintry cocoon, Philadelphians take to the streets and stoops, bikes and bars, parks and playgrounds. Much of the featured art shows people outside of their homes, in the environment of the city and the resultant interaction between the two.
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Proximity

Crazy Ladies: Christine Jones
Presenting “Crazy Ladies”, a showcase of the work of Christine Jones. Jones brings extreme detail to scenes of bizarre splendor, evoking memories of a lost youth, in a time long past. Shades of late Art Nouveau and Edward Gorey. Not to be missed.
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Space 1026

New Works
Matthew Palladino and Eric Shaw
Opening Reception: June 5th, 7 pm – 10 pm

New Works, an exhibition featuring drawings by Matthew Palladino and Eric Shaw at Space 1026, running June 5th through the 25th. Opening reception First Friday of June from 7-10pm at 1026 Arch Street in Philadelphia.

Matthew Palladino’s new work plays with perceptions of race, gender, ghosts and alternative mental states. Through painting he explores representations of the human form in varying situations and fluctuating visibility.
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Vox Populi

Gabriel Boyce
Zeus
June 5-30

In his fifth show at Vox, Gabriel Boyce presents an incongruous combination of informal works that bring us into his playful world of iconography, nature and sex. Questioning the pervasiveness of “public vs. private” in contemporary practices, Boyce’s work consistently reassures us that there is humor to be found in all things human.

Dustin Sparks
No. 3, Configuration Space: Static Equilibria of a First-Class Lever from a 3-Dimensional Lazy-Susan Subspace
June 5-30

Dustin Sparks is a sculptor based in Philadelphia. His work deals with notions of an overlooked ephemeral existence. He creates micro-social situations each with a unique climate and environment for the viewer to navigate, a non-logical isolated situation with just enough familiarity for the viewer to make sense and develop uninstructed individual purpose.

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Commuter’s Dreams
June 5-30

Visitors are invited to experience Commuter’s Dreams – an installation, documenting a series of performances, which took place in NY public transit system. The focus of each performance is a body of a Commuter, a person who uses public transportation as an everyday practice. Commuter’s Dreams are neither nightmares nor good dreams, but rather transformation of mundane reality where new questions are being asked.

Vox Alumni:
Joseph Hu and Mauro Zamora
Forest Reverie
June 5-30

Taken from the title of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe, Mauro Zamora and Joseph Hu present individual works that make reference to Poe’s poem, The Forest Reverie.

Returning to Vox Populi for the 8th time, Joseph Hu presents new sculptural works constructed of paper and cardboard. Littered throughout the gallery floor, thousands of hand cut and water-colored leaves mingle with cardboard branches and other elements found on the forest floor. Inspired by recent wanderings in woods both near and far, the piece recalls leisurely walks and a sense of awe and wonderment brought about by our connection with nature.

Mauro Zamora will exhibit a new installation that melds a video projection with his signature wall painting. The piece centers on an idea of negation and the inability to get past blockades, be they physical, psychological or political. In the case of “restricted” Zamora holds nature at a longing distance, as groups of swaying trees remain ensconced behind a painted chain link fence. Here as in other recent works, Zamora asks questions about the line a fence draws on the land — is the fence there to keep us out (away from nature) or (to keep us in the situation we exist now) to keep us in.

IN THE VIDEO LOUNGE
Michael Paul Britto
Daughters
June 5-30
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Wexler Gallery

anti/icono/clastic by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
May 1-June 27
On the second floor, Wexler Gallery presents anti/icono/clastic, a retrospective of work by experimental metalsmith and sculptor Myra Mimlitsch-Gray. The exhibition will feature important works from the artist’s personal collection from 1995 to the present.
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray engages craft as object, image, and subject, challenging traditional ideals of household articles and their forms. Interested in “material culture and how objects are positioned within the social hierarchy,” much of Gray’s work investigates “an artifact’s evolution from utilitarian object to social image.” Blurring the line between craft, fine art, and design, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray’s objects are explorations of the functional and dysfunctional and the representational and abstract.

Neoteric Matter – New Studio Jewelry. Curated by Daniella Kerner, Associate Professor, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. The show will focus on jewelry that is primarily comprised of new 21st century materials, or late 20th century materials, and their related processes, that have significantly influenced the field of jewelry. A few examples of new materials include: polymers, materials used in rapid prototyping, electronics, Precious Metal Clay, new metal alloys, and composite materials. May 1 – June 27.

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Works on Paper

A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Prints

Zhang Dali; Qin Feng; Yue Minjun; Bai Yiluo; Qi Zhilong.

June 14 – July 2009

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Yo Darkroom

No current exhibition.